Random Politics & Religion #00

Or Asian, Or Greek, Or Jewish, Or Muslim, Or Gamers, Or Sports Fans, Or Fetishists.

All of em are racists because they want to narrow down a pool to a specific group.

Mainstream Christianity gives Jesus a bad name, methinks. When you take the religion out of Christ's teachings, even atheists tend to agree with them.

Minus the gay cakes and Rand Paul, what did I miss?


This guy for president as well?

Sorry I'm late.

Don't forget this guy

Christianity is much like FFXIV.

1.0 God was a bloodthirsty jerk that didn't get many subscribers. Hardcores sang praises but the reviews were pretty bad and no one really wanted to associate with him. Turning people into pillars of salt, unleashing disasters and sending followers on a wild goose chase was far too much to ask in an era where ancestor worship and local deities were one idol away. It really felt like God hated his playerbase. Even 1.0s shock value content like sending shebears to rip people to pieces and being able to keep slaves only held peoples attention for so long.

Finally, the devs decided to just reboot. A grand prophecy was put into place and the countdown for A God Reborn began. Hardcores hated it but a new generation sat excitedly waiting to see if God could recover from such a setback.

2.0 God was far more forgiving but still can't shake some of his 1.0 mechanics. Mainly the table flipping and bringing a sword parts. Overall more polished, welcoming to casuals and balanced, this relaunch saw God become an international phenomenon as people really enjoyed the idea of deescalating conflict, caring about others, helping out newbies and noble self-sacrifice.

I'm really not even sure it's "mainstream" Christianity as much as a very, very, very vocal and visible group. A large number, to be sure, but I wouldn't call them a majority given the amount of people I know who identify as "Christian" but don't say peep about it except on actual religious holidays and the like.

Even the actual men of the cloth I know are decidely more of the "follow Jesus' teachings, not Old Testament allegory (even the priests!)" variety...as that tends to be the way to help people live in peace, understanding, and tolerance.

But there are many very loud people out there who would prefer to use the Bible to justify their own irrational hatreds, or to pander to those with those hatreds.

It's almost *coughsexactlycoughs* like the whole thing is allegorical and just a bunch of good ideas about how to live, packaged in a digestable fashion to the people of the time!

...then you have the hardcores playing XI and condemning XIV and WoW as pretenders not deserving of their wild devotion and taking offence at the suggest other MMOs have anything to offer, and lashing out violently at the suggestion we move on...

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This analogy would work a lot better if Islam came before Christianity.

Maybe you don't understand - this is an erotic bakery.

(Favorite SNL sketch since the original cast.)
(Edit:holy *** this was 21 years ago.)

XI was pagan worship.

A complete *** mess that worked somehow. Mainly because the other options were equally disorganized. The Gods exist in an abusive relationship with their playerbase and most people never heard about the game unless you played it. For those that were part of the experience, you either stuck it out and endured disaster after disaster or became deeply ingrained in the culture, learning to enjoy the whimsy of your overlords.

In retrospect there is a noble savagery to the whole thing. Something that should be preserved for modernity but largely the experience came down to raping and pillaging other people for Ebodies and 35s.

Bwahaha.

Works either way I think.

Well at least some people are looking for solutions rather than problems or letting problems get worse.

Russia may consider lifting food ban from Greece, Hungary, Cyprus

Also expect to see more talk on Greece changing whom its creditor is in the future.

All of them are racist because they advocate a policy of treating a race or multiple races differently than another.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/racism

Everybody still worships like the pagans.

They just prettied it up a bit.

True enough.

Missed a bunch of feels !

You're allowed to make a profile on any dating site - black, gay, muslim, farmers, whatever. I have one up on oppressedstraightwhitechristians.com (I get a LOT of hits).

What about a dating site for black gay Muslim farmers !

Russian hacked into the white house I bet Chaosx is behind this !

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-29817644


A White House computer network has been breached by hackers, it has been reported.

The unclassified Executive Office of the President network was attacked, according to the Washington Post.

US authorities are reported to be investigating the breach, which was reported to officials by an ally of the US, sources said.

White House officials believe the attack was state-sponsored but are not saying what - if any - data was taken.

In a statement to the AFP news agency, the White House said "some elements of the unclassified network" had been affected.

A White House official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told the Washington Post: "In the course of assessing recent threats, we identified activity of concern on the unclassified EOP network.

"Any such activity is something we take very seriously. In this case, we took immediate measures to evaluate and mitigate the activity.
'State-sponsored'

"Certainly, a variety of actors find our networks to be attractive targets and seek access to sensitive information. We are still assessing the activity of concern."

The source said the attack was consistent with a state-sponsored effort and Russia is thought by the US government to be one of the most likely threats.

"On a regular basis, there are bad actors out there who are attempting to achieve intrusions into our system," a second White House official told the Washington Post.

"This is a constant battle for the government and our sensitive government computer systems, so it's always a concern for us that individuals are trying to compromise systems and get access to our networks."

The Post quoted its sources as saying that the attack was discovered two-to-three weeks ago. Some White House staff were reportedly told to change their passwords and there was some disruption to network services.

In a statement given to Agence France-Presse, a White House official said the Executive Office of the President received daily alerts concerning numerous possible cyber threats.

In the course of addressing the breach, some White House users were temporarily disconnected from the network.

"Our computers and systems have not been damaged, though some elements of the unclassified network have been affected. The temporary outages and loss of connectivity for our users is solely the result of measures we have taken to defend our networks," the official said.

The US's National Security Agency, Federal Bureau of Investigation and Security Service were reportedly investigating.

Requests for comment were referred to the Department for Homeland Security, a spokesman for which was not immediately available. A White House spokesman has not responded to the BBC's request for comment.

I've got things to do tonight, this isn't going to change anyone's mind and a non-profit, non-partisan source is clearly a liberal hoax so I doubt anyone will even read this, but I'll just leave this here and if you guys with hard-ons for massive corporate control of America want to keep circle-jerking, be my guest.

Right to Work Issues

I would love to see a law that specifically addresses this.

So......

Schulz warns Greece to stick to EU's line on Russia sanctions: newspaper

Simply put, and never even thought about it before.

In my mind, the ten commandments show just how out of date a lot of religious canon is. And, by extension, how people pick and choose, seemingly randomly, which rules are worth burning down medical clinics and which are ignored.

Here we go again...

White South Carolina policeman charged with murdering black man

You really should post the video as well. It tells the story pretty clearly.

Didn't even see it, thanks.

Can't wait to see nausi's defense on this one.

Wow, the guy is dead or just about to die lying on the ground after being shot 8 times and he's yelling at him to put his hands behind his back... wtf?